HAYMAKING IN NEW ZEALAND.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue X, 7 March 1896, Page 262

HAYMAKING IN NEW ZEALAND.

ON this and the two previous pages some pictures are given of a New Zealand farm house and of

the hay-making season. It is not our province to at length describe the improved methods of making hay adopted on many farms in the North Island. That will doubtless be done in our admirable contemporary, The Farmer. But even to the uninitiated there seems to be something surprising that so patent a time-saving appliance as the Derrick was not applied to stack-making months before. For the rest the pictures are their own best explanation, and are extremely interesting and refreshing to we dwellers in the city. There is something very refreshing in pictures like these in this hot and tiring weather. They make us hunger for the country though, but doubtless if we lived there for a month or so the majority of us would want to hurry back to town. The titles of the blocks on this page could not be placed beneath them owing to their size. The first represents a group of haymakers enjoying the ‘ smoke ho ’ or rest in the afternoon. The triple picture shows first the rake and 1 scratcher,’ the latter being the machine which forks the hay. In the next is seen the hay sledge, and in the next the derrick mode of stack building. The photos from which our blocks are made are by Mr Pegler,of Onehunga. and were taken, with one exception, on Mr Wallace’s well-known farm near Auckland.